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To say I was shit-faced scared was an understatement. As I peeked around the door into the small space there was between the thing and the solid wall, I let out a breath I didn´t even know I was holding. "Fuck, Grandpa, couldn´t you just open the door and come in" I slammed the door shut before opening it back up with the chain off and letting him in.
"Watch that foul mouth of yours, Bell. I don´t mind as much, but I still prefer your parents to think I´m not a bad guardian.
"I doubt that, ´pa." I gave him a hug as he finally set his coat in the…well coat closet and changed his boots for slippers.
"And I left the keys here by mistake, sorry hunny. I know how on edge you must be. So…I´m guessing we´re still on?" I let go of him swiftly and turned towards the TV, picking up the remote left aimlessly on the couch and turned the machine back on, once again putting the numbered code back in. "Dom" Grandpa Charlie smiled and nodded his head at the cam, waited for uncle Dom to reply in the same manner and left the room to leave us alone. They got on really well, to be honest, even if the last greetings may have said otherwise. ´Pa knew how little time I had to speaking to them before our connection would start to be chased up by the government and we had to wait a few days until we could communicate again. "How long left?" I looked up at him and saw the pity and sorrow in his eyes.
"About two minutes… The next time you call your parents will be here, and Letty, promise. We miss you, baby. Stay safe and if anything…anything happens, just tell me. Love you…" Uncle Dom wasn´t always good with his emotions and less goodbye´s, but that all changed when his close family was involved. Meaning my parents, Letty and I. Maybe one or two more, but that was it. To outsiders he was careful and distant, cold even, protected. Then I´m born and he warms up that heart of his even more, the guy is wrapped around my little pinkie; they all are really in some way or another.
"Love you too, send it to everyone else. Fuck! Bye!" I quickly cut the call as did he and slumped against the sofa. I slid into the cushions easily as I thought about this year. What a fucking fun year this was going to be…
I cleaned the place up in Charlie´s absence, he was probably asleep now or doing paper work. He wasn´t as young as he used to be, and even if he tried not to show it, it still showed sometimes. I was scared he´d drop from a heart attack of so much work and very little rest, and that´s why he started sleeping when he came home.
I made up a quick bowl of salad and pasta and left it somewhere until later that night, and although I tried hard, my thought would lead somewhere close to the Cullen family. That led me to call them. I picked up the house phone that was stationed on one of the kitchen walls and dialed in Alice´s number. She picked up on the first ring. What was this girl? Psychic of a phone maniac? "Hello, Alice speaking." Her chirpy bell like voice sounded out of the speaker of the phone.
"Hi…Alice" Commence fake Bella. "Erm…I was…well you see…your brother told me to ring, that I could ring…if it´s inconvenient just say…please…sorry for disturbing you…" I mumbled towards the end and rewarded myself on my clean mouth, shy girl act I was pulling off rather well unless it left my head and I started to turn back into real me…like in gym. I was a second away from kicking her arse and telling her a few things those ears of hers would cringe at.
"Oh no no no no…it´s fine, really! So…what do you want? You want to come around now…cause you can if you want to, nobody will mind, in fact they all really want to meet you, honest!" The girl needed a chill pill and fast. Even though she seemed really nice and like we could be good friends, I would kill her if she didn´t shut up. A slight pet pain of mine was people who just talked on and never stopped. I liked silence, that way I could hear the growl of engine´s better.
"Oh, great…but I was…well…calling to see if we could…hang out tomorrow instead, have things to do here today and I…well wanted to see if you´d be available… I don´t want to impose or anything…" Seriously, I could win an Oscar at this point, and I wasn´t just saying it to sound brilliant, people were just believing me easily.
I could literally hear her grinning at the other end of the phone as she listened to me. "Oh, of course, tomorrow come around when you want, anytime!" Perky pixie…that´s it, I´d call her pixie.
"Oh…ok…well I have to go now…see you tomorrow…" I hung up and gave a little victory dance. "I am good" I did feel guilty about lying to pixie, but I wasn´t just going to blurt out who I really am or what I live for. "Yeah, by the way I´m not who you think I am, my parents are on the most wanted list and my uncle and aunt to, I street race and that´s just the beginning of it" I didn´t see it going down so well.
My ´pa came down later on and we ate quickly. He thanked me for the meal, asked me how I was and went back to bed. His poor health was deteriorating, but that´s what you get when you're sixty and always working. He may look like he is in his forties and he wishes he was that young again. I kissed his cheek and let him go, that guy needed to slow down.
I cleaned the kitchen and the plates and then went up to my room heading to my bed and falling asleep early so I could wake up refreshed.
The next morning I was welcomed by rain. Yeah, you got to fucking love Forks, right? Okay, maybe that was a little bit over the top; I did like the rain, but not necessarily waking up to it every morning. My body got itself ready and my mind wandered off into my own little world, so far that I didn´t even realize I was at school when I stopped the car and stepped out. I would have to speed this baby up. "Bells!" I heard Angela´s faint voice and smiled slightly. At least her voice was chirpy.
"Ang!" I called back, pulling her into a quick hug before heading towards the school. "So, today is Friday, meaning, you wanna come to this house party there is or whatever tonight?" I didn´t think she was the party type, but then again I didn´t know her over a day. And I would love to go, though something was stopping me. Party to me was having a good time and drinking. I barely knew anyone, scratch good time and drinking? Yeah, good knows what the mix in, I´d be heaving crap out of my stomach for the whole weekend. On top of that, Dom had sent me a message telling me about this date I had with the guy with the information for the race. Yeah, I date. Go out for a meal and then he will give me the deeds. What the meal was about? God knows.
"I can´t, sorry Ang, I have a date with this guy in Seattle. I won´t be back until late…sorry…" She looked slightly relieved that I had said no, something I would have to ask her about later.
"Well have a good time, later tell me about this guy, kay?" I smiled and nodded before dashing into class.
The classes passed quickly, I didn´t see Edward or Alice anywhere. Lunch came, didn´t see any of them apart from Rosalie and Emmett. Not even Angela was there, but she had been held back in class with her class for an exam. I had nothing to do but drift to the library, find a decent book and read.
Again, the time was passing by so quickly I couldn't ´t even take in anything, I wasn´t knackered, more like trying to think about later that night, and again, it didn´t take long until I had to get ready. I decided to go simple yet seductive, if this guy wanted a date, he would get a date. I choose a simple black dress that clung to my body in the right places. It was V-necked, meaning you could see the top of my bust, but not a clear skanky view. The material was rather flexible, hanging down freely from my waist to just above my knees, finishing it off with a pair of black high heels. I went over my makeup again, adding mascara to the eye liner and eye shadow; a little bit of blusher, even though I was easy to make blush and some red lipstick, it brought out the red lace in my bra that you could see from the thin material used on the top half of the back of the dress. Like I said: simple yet enough. I chucked my mobile and whatever else I was going to need for the night in a small black bag before heading towards my wardrobe. At the back of everything there was a safe, a small exact replica of the one used in the Río heist, making it almost impossible to open without me.
Placing the tip of my index finger and thumb on the pad and literally telling it to open, the locks silently clicked and pushed itself open, swinging slightly to reveal a few sets of keys. Some to vintage cars, some to luxury cars, some to cars to expensive a rare to even let out of the garage yet and some to my race cars. I decided it was time to let my little Audi R8 Spyder to rip up the tarmac and grabbed it´s keys. Even the set of keys themselves gleamed in little light there was about, seeming to be happy I was taking it out. Walking carefully as to not trip in the killer heels, I made it to the garage, opening it up and searching for my beauty. She was waiting in her own space in a corner, the sleek, black colour reflecting the light in a way my heart sped up as the adrenaline started to pace through my veins. Tonight would be fun.
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